title: Electronic portfolios in nursing education: a review of the literature.
abstract: As health professionals, nurses are responsible for staying abreast of current professional knowledge and managing their own career, professional growth and development, and ideally, practices to support these activities should start during their student years. Interest in electronic or eportfolios is gathering momentum as educationalists explore their potential as a strategy for fostering lifelong learning and enhancing on-going personal and professional development. In this paper, we present an overview of e-portfolios and their application to nurse education, highlighting potential benefits and considerations of useage. We argue that the e-portfolio can represent an authentic means of assessing cognitive, reflective and affective skills. Furthermore, the e-portfolio provides a means through which nurses can record and provide evidence of skills, achievements, experience, professional development and on-going learning, not only for themselves, but for the information and scrutiny of registration boards, employers, managers and peers.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health, University of Technology, PO Box 222, Lindfield, Sydney, NSW 2070, Australia. Electronic address: Janet.Green@uts.edu.au.
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Green
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health, University of Technology, PO Box 222, Lindfield, Sydney, NSW 2070, Australia. Electronic address: Aileen.Wyllie@uts.edu.au.
authors.forename: Aileen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wyllie
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health, University of Technology, PO Box 222, Lindfield, Sydney, NSW 2070, Australia. Electronic address: Debra.Jackson@uts.edu.au.
authors.forename: Debra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D004282:Documentation; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000592:standards*; D004522:Educational Status; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007858:Learning; D012647:Self-Assessment
keywords: E-portfolios; Lifelong learning; Nurse education; Portfolios